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One meal (all ingredients added), spread over multiple meals

BluePete64
BluePete64 Posts: 1 Member
in Feature Suggestions and Ideas

If I make a huge salad (942 g) to eat over the course of a few meals, I don't want to have to add the ingredients each time. Furthermore, maybe I'd like to add a little more of one or two of the ingredients to the overall meal.

For example: today I made a 942 g "salad" that has 12 line items in it for a total of about 1500 calories. I ate 230 g of the salad for lunch. Based on the overall "salad" meal, I ate 230/942 g (or 24.4% of the total salad). For dinner, I intend to eat 500 g of salad, but I might want to add more tomato to the salad mix. It would be nice if I could add the "salad" from the meal as a single line item (doesn't work that way currently - if I click add food to dinner, and then select my meals, I can only view or delete it. I can't add it to my diary or edit the line item quantities), then I could add another line item for the tomato. Simple, easy.

Then next week, I would make another salad with mostly the same ingredients. I would like to be able to select "salad" from a list of my meals, then adjust the amount of ingredients in the new salad mix and save it again.

If this feature is already available, it's not easily understood nor intuitive.

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  • durden
    durden Posts: 3,969 MFP Staff

    I think this would best be expressed as a Recipe since you're making it in large batches. The recipes features allows you to combine multiple ingredients, so that MyFitnessPal can automatically calculate the correct number of calories and nutrients when you log a serving of that recipe to your diary.

  • Buggs2T
    Buggs2T Posts: 7 Member

    Use the recipes or the meals feature. Then you can add additional items to your actual meal.

  • MetSyndNinja
    MetSyndNinja Posts: 7 Member
    edited April 17

    Your chopped salad looks yummy.

    Creating a recipe is good if you have the meal often.

    Another option is to go to the meal that you've already logged, click on the 3 DOTS at the bottom, across from "ADD FOOD" and select "Save as Meal". When you want to log that meal again, click "ADD FOOD", click on "My Meals" tab, and click on the meal. The meal comes over to the current day as individual ingredients that you can modify. I use this often for a big batch smoothie or salad of random ingredients, that I'll have over multiple days. I name the smoothie with a date, like "2025-04-17 Smoothie". It makes deleting that "My Meals" easy too. I just delete old dates to declutter the list.

    Another option is to go to the meal entry that you recorded previously. Click on the 3 DOTS at the bottom, across from "ADD FOOD" and select "Copy To Date". On the next screen you choose a date & meal to add this list of ingredients to. They copy to the new date/time as individual ingredients that you can modify.

    Another option is to go to today's meal, click on the 3 DOTS at the bottom, across from "ADD FOOD" and select "Copy From Date". On the next screen you choose a date & meal to pull the list of ingredients from. I don't like this option as much as "Copy To Date". It's easier to make the mistake of entering the wrong day/meal.

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